CVE-2021-47475

comedi: vmk80xx: fix transfer-buffer overflows

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 22, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 22, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

comedi: vmk80xx: fix transfer-buffer overflows

The driver uses endpoint-sized USB transfer buffers but up until recently had no sanity checks on the sizes.

Commit e1f13c879a7c ("staging: comedi: check validity of wMaxPacketSize of usb endpoints found") inadvertently fixed NULL-pointer dereferences when accessing the transfer buffers in case a malicious device has a zero wMaxPacketSize.

Make sure to allocate buffers large enough to handle also the other accesses that are done without a size check (e.g. byte 18 in vmk80xx_cnt_insn_read() for the VMK8061_MODEL) to avoid writing beyond the buffers, for example, when doing descriptor fuzzing.

The original driver was for a low-speed device with 8-byte buffers. Support was later added for a device that uses bulk transfers and is presumably a full-speed device with a maximum 64-byte wMaxPacketSize.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before 5229159f1d052821007aff1a1beb7873eacf1a9fAffected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before ec85bcff4ed09260243d8f39faba99e1041718baAffected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before 40d2a7e278e2e7c0a5fd7e997e7eb63945bf93f7Affected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before 7a2021b896de1ad559d33b5c5cdd20b982242088Affected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before 199acd8c110e3ae62833c24f632b0bb1c9f012a9Affected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before 33d7a470730dfe7c9bfc8da84575cf2cedd60d00Affected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before 278484ae93297b1bb1ce755f9d3b6d95a48c7d47Affected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before 06ac746d57e6d32b062e220415c607b7e2e0fa50Affected
  • 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb to before a23461c47482fc232ffc9b819539d1f837adf2b1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.31Affected
  • before 2.6.31Not affected
  • 4.4.292 through 4.4.*Not affected
  • 4.9.290 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.255 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.217 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.159 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.79 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.14.18 through 5.14.*Not affected
  • 5.15.2 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16 and laterNot affected

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